Norsk Data
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Norsk Data was a minicomputer manufacturer located in Oslo, Norway. Existing from 1967 to 1998, it had its most active period from the early 1970s to the late 1980s. At the company's peak in 1987, it was the second largest company in Norway and employed over 4,500 people.
Industry | Computer hardware, Computer software |
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Founded | August 8, 1967; 56 years ago (1967-08-08) |
Founders | Lars Monrad Krohn, Per Bjørge, Rolf Skår |
Defunct | 1992 |
Fate | Purchased by Telenor |
Successor | Telenor |
Headquarters | , |
Products | Minicomputer |
Number of employees | over 4,500 (1987) |
Throughout its history Norsk Data produced a long string of extremely innovative systems, with a disproportionately large number of world firsts. Some examples of this are the NORD-1, the first minicomputer to have memory paging as a standard option, and the first machine to have floating-point instructions standard, the NORD-5, the world's first 32-bit minicomputer (beating the VAX, often claimed the first, by 6 years).